Jacob

I had to do homework for this post, because I don't know any Radiohead songs and the only Creep I know is by TLC.

I'm trying to figure out how to get my sixth grader to stress out just enough to get her C in math up to a B, but not so much that I cause her any trouble, lol

They currently rank 3rd in Jeff Sagarin's RECENT metric, behind the Pistons and Spurs. With the Cavs adding Harden and the Celtics getting Tatum back, the Eastern Conference playoff picture is looking interesting.

sagarin.com/sports/nbase...

Yup, especially when it comes to RFK Jr’s most important ally, Jay Bhattacharya—the parallels with Lysenko are uncanny

This piece by virologist @angierasmussen.bsky.social, one of the Editors in Chief of the journal Vaccine is 🔥🔥🔥

geneticliteracyproject.org/2025/08/28/v...

Here in farm country, I walked outside yesterday and caught my first whiff of 2026 manure.

So it turns out Ryan Grim got all of the "Platner's wife is Jewish, still think he's a nazi?" schtick from VDARE, a neo-nazi website, and now not only am I more convinced that Platner is a nazi, I'm also convinced Grim is.

i think it's pretty rad that being a shitty person makes you worse at ai honestly. could never have predicted this. like a goddamn rpg mechanic where you have to be pure of heart

llms should have native audio output so they can rap battle and we can determine the best lab that way

Very disappointed to learn about Kerri Strug's politics in 04. I hope she recovered from this serious condition. 😔

gotta say, "the modern right is built entirely around vice signalling" seems like a theory with legs

Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults?—Asterisk There’s a lot to like about the Rationalist community, but they do have a certain tendency to spawn — shall we say — high demand groups. We sent a card-carrying Rat to investigate what’s really going ...

9. It can reasonably be objected that the starry-eyed advocates of LLMs are themselves cultists. Even some inside the tribe accept that it is so! But too much Bluesky AI discourse reminds me of vintage Dawkins/Harris atheism - taking up the bad intellectual habits of those they condemn. Finis.

I taught this in fed courts two weeks ago: people drastically underestimate how complete Congress's power over SCOTUS is. The constitutional baseline is one judge that hears original jurisdiction cases (ambassadors, states as parties)

Move over Jared. There's a new replacement son.

My parents had to change planes in Dubai on their way back from someplace, a few years ago.

They briefly considered spending a day there, but my dad looked up their LGBTQ policies and said no.

“I won’t set foot somewhere Dana would be persecuted,” my mom tells me he said.

I was just telling my wife that I would never want to vacation in Dubai and your dad gave a much more succinct explanation than I did.

Deeeeeefinitely in our interest to call it the DoW now

“the federal government is an insurance company with an army" … on the nose today.

Antisemitism all over this site

For some additional context, this was 8 years before desegregation

A segregated water fountain showing the "white" and "colored" labels

There are people making policy decisions about what content is legal to show on the internet who drank out of these

you don't shame the anti-vax parents to change their minds, it's too late for that. you shame the anti-vax parents because it might deter other parents from going down that road. only cranks and curmudgeons move against the tide of widespread social sanction.

These guys always think there's an "I win" button that everybody else has been too stupid to push, then they're surprised when they push the button and confetti doesn't fall from the ceiling while "We Are The Champions" plays.

This is not a dunk on him, but this has been more or less well known by anyone who has taken survey methods courses in social sciences for a long time.

The fact that we base so much of our collective time on opinion polling is really dire.

This either ends in a few days when Trump doesn't get an approval rating boost and gets tired of this whole thing, or it will still be going in 100 years because nobody is going to want to be the one to end a war.

I don't care if the apocalypse is happening, I will always have time for De La.

The smartest thing Thomas Sowell ever said was that conservatives send their B-Team into politics. If anything, he was being too kind.

"We'll give Argentina money but only if they vote for our right-wing ally."

The idea seems to be that they can MAKE Jesus return, and I'm fairly confident when I say, "that's not how it works".

Personally, I don’t think we should bring about Armageddon.

One of the greatest, Bruce Campbell, announcing he has cancer. Our hearts are with you Bruce, Hail to the King.